Totally agree! I’ve seen that same feeling around, and it got me thinking too. I actually shared a few ideas with TR recently, so I figured I’d drop them here and see what the community thinks. Maybe some of you have thought of similar things or have even better suggestions.
Here’s what I sent over:
1. Route-based effort estimation for outside group rides
Sync a Strava route or upload a GPX so TR can estimate time and effort before heading out.
2. Event-specific route integration in Event-Focused Plans
Instead of just entering a guessed duration, upload the actual course and let the plan adapt to that route.
3. AI-powered hydration & fueling insights
Log what you took in during the ride and get feedback on how it impacted performance.
4. Personalized pacing strategy suggestions
AI pacing plans for key events based on the course profile and your past data.
5. AI coach during workouts (opt-in)
Real-time suggestions like pacing tweaks or hydration reminders if HR or power drift looks unusual.
6. Motivational notifications (also optional)
Things like “You’ve been consistent for 3 weeks!” or “Strongest intervals this month.”
7. Post-workout reflection prompts
Quick questions to track subjective trends that numbers don’t always show.
Curious if any of this resonates with others — or if you all have wish-list ideas of your own.
TrainerRoad is a Training app. Most of these requests are available already through other apps like Best Bike Split, My Windsock, Hexis, Saturday Nutrition, etc. Personally I just want TrainerRoad to keep focusing on training.
I would love to see the Progression Level weirdness scraped. IMO it makes no sense to have different levels for endurance/tempo/threshold/ftp etc.
I would like to see them replaced with a physiological impact model. Something like an aerobic or anaerobic impact depending on the workout and intervals.
It been great to easily order workouts based on how hard they are
The assignment of PLs to particular workouts isn’t always perfect but it’s been far better at predicting overall workout difficulty than looking at the more mainstream metrics (IF, TSS etc) for me.
Yes, as someone who largely schedules my own workouts in my own plans, this has been great for me also. Strictly these are Workout Levels not Progression Levels - WLs, a gauge of non-complex workouts’ difficulty, could be retained, while a person’s PL profile, which imperfectly attempts to describe someone’s abilities, could be replaced or augmented by a more sophisticated model…
I’d be really unhappy if WLs assigned to workouts were removed (or hidden behind the scenes), since they’re very useful to me scheduling & calibrating the progression blocks that are the basis of my training. Really unhappy!
Compared to my earlier TR days, I now rarely encounter a workout that’s unexpectedly hard or easy. I’m able to accurately calibrate progression steps without the larger jumps up or down in difficulty that periodically occurred pre-WL and could knock me off course. For the simple workout formats I prefer, I can usually gauge what’s a suitable progression step without WLs, but by providing a scale WLs give additional insight into the steps between workouts and so help me make better decisions.
NB it’s likely I go about workout selection a bit too conservatively (vs. what a predictive model might suggest), but my measured approach suits me (& my aged body…) well thanks. While I do sometimes close my eyes, enter the matrix and let AT do its thing, I appreciate that TR in its current guise also works for people like me often doing things manually, and WLs help me with this.
I’d argue that the issue here is communication - because the PL profile on the career page is extremely useful as long as you take it for what it is - just a graphical representation of what workouts you have completed recently - and not directly an attempt to grade an athletes actual ability.
I think part of the issue is that the PL chart looks like a power distribution chart, smells like a power distribution chart but is not, in fact, a power distribution chart.
You’ve summed things up well in that post. In the lead up to the TR release which first rolled out AT, WLs, PLs, I think many of us might’ve imagined it’d work as a capability profile vs. the recent workout record that it is. It’s a subtle but important distinction. Even if WLv2 had ever arrived and fully worked, there’d still be a distinction.
Feature request: Having the ability to do a post training plan review; i.e. being able to see number of workouts completed versus not completed (or skipped), correlated with FTP levels, and for icing on the cake how many workouts were either adjusted up/down based on Adaptive Training. Kind of like a report card for you at the end of the training plan to give you a grade on how well you did in the training.
I request anything like that to be implemented as feedback that is always available during the training plan. That way people that aren’t halt with results can see (if they look) how well they did or didn’t follow the plan.
I somehow remember that the RL/GL and AT sliders used to be separate, but it looks like one slider rules all for now. I like to keep the RL/GL slider one one of the top two levels because after years of structured training, I find that yellow and red days are popping up a little too often for me. Keeping them high, however, adds more intensity that I am looking for (more threshold vs SS in particular).
Keeping them separate would allow many of us to do some higher volume at lower intensity without constant alarm bells. I also think that separating these would minimize forum complaints of too much intensity and constant downward adaptations when RL/GL is triggered.
Hexis/MyFoodThingy app future workout and completed activities push for nutrition planning. Currently I use intervals to push completed activities and manually input upcoming workouts/rides. Automated would be nicer
I’d like to have the option to hide metrics of my choosing in the workout player. If I’m doing a ride outside I can hide the timer during intervals. Maybe others would actually want to hide the watts.
It would be nice if when you associate an outside / ride not done in TR with a workout on TR you could have the name of the uploaded ride changed to be the workout name. Make this a setting at least.
I’ve mentioned it once before but would like to bring it up in this thread too. I WOULD LOVE some lunch and learns on how to use the software and look at our numbers. Or maybe a series that brings this into the Podcast. There is so much in there, I think TR folks think we are smarter than we are.
Anyway, I just found the Season match functionality. What does the 10-week toggle do? Show current point -10 weeks? I’d love to understand how to read the data and compare my progression from last year.
A better way to adjust resistance on V02 workouts.. I either have way to much (at rests) or not enough at the V02. Erg is aweful for VO2 and resistance has way too many “clicks” and hard to mangage on the app.. My old trainer/spin bike had a 1-15 scale with easy to push buttons. Mobile phones, no so easy when you’re dripping sweat.
Maybe increase the “button size”, incorp volume button, … or have a way when switching from erg to res or std have the ability for default res/std value remember/match what you were just at in erg for given cadence.
